Analytics Archives

July 5, 2021

How web and product analytics improve the customer journey in banking (while also maintaining security and privacy)

An emphasis on customer concerns, privacy and security is important to about 90% of those surveyed by Morning Consult. This leads to a problem for financial institutions of all kinds to balance regulatory compliance with providing customers with personalized offers. Banks need data about the customer journey to understand their clients’ preferences and compete in…
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July 1, 2021

What is a trusted execution environment (TEE) and how can it improve the safety of your data?

If you’re using analytics or other marketing platforms to process personal data, including sensitive data, you might be wondering how to make sure it’s properly protected against cyberattacks. Collecting data using privacy-friendly software deployed on secure servers is only one piece of the puzzle. There’s even more ways to protect your data collection, including employing…
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June 24, 2021

CNIL’s consent exemption for Piwik PRO – What it means for you and the analytics data you collect

CNIL has added Piwik PRO Analytics Suite to the list of analytics platforms that can be used to collect data without consent in France.
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June 2, 2021

What is privacy-friendly analytics?

Privacy-friendly analytics is a set of methods for collecting, measuring and analyzing data in a way that respects privacy and delivers relevant insights.
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March 24, 2021

Web analytics for governments part 3: Working with operational KPIs

This article is the third and last part of the series about the FTG (Functie-Taak-Gedrag in Dutch) framework – a web analytics model designed for the public sector. The framework was created by Toon Vuursteen, a Dutch thought leader in digital analytics for government, now using his expertise to support clients of GBBO. From this…
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March 16, 2021

How to host your analytics: public cloud vs private cloud vs self-hosted

Keeping data on in-house servers used to be the gold standard for doing analytics safely and securely. But cloud-based analytics platforms have been steadily gaining market share as well as – and more importantly – the trust of organizations. In the cloud, clients aren’t responsible for the software, services and hardware, which cuts their costs.…
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February 25, 2021

Is your analytics project HIPAA-compliant? A complete checklist with 32 questions

Healthcare organizations want their services to be patient-centric and provide the best quality experience. To achieve this aim, they expand their marketing stacks, gather data and measure the performance of their websites and apps. Using analytics in healthcare doubtlessly brings benefits, as it allows organizations to apply the collected insights to improve their services and…
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February 3, 2021

How multi-channel attribution works in Piwik PRO

As someone investing in dozens of channels – social media, search advertising, email, blogging and more – you want to know which are giving the best return on investment. You want a reliable multi-channel attribution analysis that lets you: But how can you do that when the customer journey is so fragmented? Going from first…
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January 5, 2021

Matomo performance issues: What causes them and how to fix them

Many companies choose Matomo because it doesn’t share user details with advertising systems and allows for keeping data in virtually any location on the globe. But if you’re reading this article, you probably know this already. And you also know that Matomo sometimes faces performance issues. This won’t happen if you run small analytics projects…
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December 15, 2020

Web analytics for governments part 2: How to work with strategic & tactical goals

This article is the second of a three-part series about the FTG framework – a web analytics model designed with the websites of public institutions in mind. The framework was created by Toon Vuursteen, a Dutch thought leader in digital analytics for the public sector, now supporting the digital transformation of GBBO, an agency specialized…
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